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750ml
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Explosion of fleshy red fruits and berries on the nose and on the palate, with a pleasant freshness to finish.
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In the cellar, the vinification is semi-carbonic and lasts between 12 to 15 days. A weighted grill keeps the cap...
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An impressive, concentrated Nouveau, with ripe, fresh cherry and garrigue flavors that show a salty mineral...
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This wine features a complex bouquet of raspberries, mulberries, rose petals, and wet stone. The palate is supple,...
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750ml
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$20.00
Floral and fruity, the aromas of strawberry, peach, violet and spicy cinnamon are common.
750ml
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$17.91
Fermented naturally (carbonic maceration) and aged in cement and stainless steel. Fermentation lasts 8 – 12 days....
750ml
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$19.94
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This small-batch Brouilly leads with delicious black fruit. The wine has a nose of pencil shavings, black plum, dried...
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$19.94
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What an attractive nose of violets this Fleurie has. A firmly structured wine for this appellation with serious...
750ml
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$18.75
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$18.38
Deep purple in color, this wine has an aromatic nose of blackberry, blueberry and hints of hibiscus. This vintage...
750ml
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$37.94
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$37.18
From Gamay vines planted in 1978 in the coolest of the domaine's red wine parcels, the 2019 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont...
750ml
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$37.94
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$37.18
Offering up aromas of cherries, sweet red berries, violets and spices, the 2020 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont is medium to...
750ml
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$18.00
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$17.64
This producer also owns vineyards in Burgundy and gives the Burgundian wood-aging treatment to the Beaujolais....
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$19.90
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The 2019 Moulin-à-Vent Coeur de Terroirs, from 50-year-old vines, is matured in barrels and demi-muids. It has a...
Gamay Mencia Rye Whiskey Mencia
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
Rye Whiskey is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, with sales rocketing in recent years thanks to a growing interest in strong, unique flavors, and small, independent distilleries. Rye Whiskey is a drink which is all about powerful, bold flavors, with plenty of spice and bitterness when drunk young. Aged, however, it takes on a deep set of subtle notes which are beautifully mellow and complex, and becomes a fascinating example of what whiskey can be when made with expert hands.
In order for an American Whiskey to be labeled a Rye Whiskey, it must have a mash content which is no less than fifty one percent rye. This separates it from Bourbon, and it is this which gives it its distinctive flavor and spiciness. Toffee, cinnamon, caraway, cloves and oak are typical tasting notes, and ‘straight rye’ whiskies - which are aged in charred oak barrels - take on plenty of the smokiness of the wood, adding a further, fascinating facet.
Rye Whiskey has its spiritual home in the northeastern states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and cities like Pittsburgh produced vast quantities of Rye Whiskey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most the old distilleries were closed during the prohibition era, after which time rye whiskey more or less disappeared completely, but the twenty-first century is seeing old recipes being resurrected and released to rave reviews.